Intel - IIIT Bangalore Chip Design Program

Welcome to "Chip Design for High School" Journey!

Join us on an exciting adventure where the world of chip design unfolds like a thrilling tale of a bustling electronic city! Let’s navigate the roads of this fascinating city together.

Important Dates

Sign up to become a city planner of the electronic world!

15 Oct - 15 Nov 2023

Registration Open!

Inauguration Video Recording

15 Nov 2023

Inauguration

A little check to make sure you’re all set for the journey!

15 Nov - 1 Dec 2023

Screening Process

Dive into action and get your hands busy with exciting activities and experiments!

2 Dec 2023 - 15 Jan 2024

Hands-on Labs

Learn the building blocks that make the electronic city function smoothly!

15 Jan - 15 Mar 2024

VLSI Foundation

What Will You Learn?

Ohm’s Law: Back to Basics

Remember the cool stuff you learned in school about Ohm’s Law? It’s like the traffic rules for electricity in our electronic gadgets. We’re going to revisit this superhero rule to make sure our foundation is rock solid. It’s essential to know how much electrical “traffic” should flow to make our devices work just right!

Chip Design: Your New Adventure!

Now, here comes the super exciting part – Chip Design! This is where you become the architect of electronic cities (chips). It’s like using your imagination to create a bustling city where electricity flows smoothly through roads (circuits) and traffic lights (gates), ensuring everything works harmoniously and efficiently.

By diving into the world of chip design, you’ll unlock the magical doors of creativity and innovation, bringing amazing electronic gadgets to life! So get ready to explore, learn, and create as you step into the universe of chip design! 🌌

Sessions

Part 1
Screening - Basic Physics and Electrical Concepts

Week 1

Introduction to Basic Physics and Electricity.

Lec-1: Introduction to Basic Physics and Electricity – Part 1

  • Introduction to fundamental physics concepts relevant to electricity.
  • Basic electrical terms and units, electric charge, field, and potential.

Lec-2: Introduction to Basic Physics and Electricity – Part 2

  • Continuation of electricity principles with an emphasis on electric forces and energy.

Week 2

Electrical Relationships and Practical Skills

Lec-3: Basic Current, Voltage Relationship, Ohm’s Law

  • Exploring the relationship between current, voltage, and resistance.
  • Applications of Ohm’s Law in various circuits.

Lab-1: Lab Platform Familiarization and Breadboard Connections

  • Hands-on lab introducing the lab environment and equipment.
  • Building and understanding simple circuits using a breadboard.

End of Part 1 Assessment

  • Written test to assess understanding of basic concepts covered in Weeks 1 and 2.
  • Practical exam to evaluate hands-on skills with lab equipment and breadboard connections.

Part 2
Fundamentals of Logic Gates in Chip Design

Week 3

Switching Logic and Automation Basics

Lec-4: Basics of Automation and Switching Logics

  • Understanding the principles of automation in electrical systems.
    • Introduction to the basics of switching logic.

Week 4

Logic Gates and Practical Application

Lec-5: Logic Realization Using Switches

  • Theoretical aspects of using switches for implementing logic functions.

Lab-2: Logic Realization Using Switches

  • Hands-on practice with different types of logic gates.
  • Combining logic gates to create basic digital functions.

Week 5

Advanced Application of Logic Gates and Debugging

Lab-3: Complex Logic Gate Implementation

  • Designing and building more complex logic functions using gates.

Lab-4: Logic Analyzers and Circuit Debugging

  • Using logic analyzers to diagnose and fix issues in digital circuits.

Week 6

Capstone Project in Chip Design

Lab Project: Combination Logic Function Design and Testing

  • Students will apply all concepts learned to design a logic function that could be used in chip design
  • Final project development, testing, and troubleshooting.

End of Part 2 Assessment

  • Review session to consolidate all topics covered.
  • Final project presentation and evaluation.
  • Comprehensive final exam covering the fundamentals of logic gates and their applications in chip design
 

Easy-to-Understand Adventures

Imagine our chip as a lively city. Ohm’s Law acts like the traffic rules, guiding the electricity cars safely. The chip design process is like planning the city, ensuring that traffic (electricity) flows smoothly, allowing every part of the city to work harmoniously.

Become a Chip City Planner!

By the end of this journey, you’ll become a chip city planner, knowing how to guide the traffic and plan the roads efficiently, making sure our electronic devices, like phones and computers, work perfectly and creatively.

Ready to embark on this extraordinary adventure?

Sign up and start your journey in the fantastic world of chip design! 🌈🚀

🌟 Join us, and let’s create extraordinary electronic cities together! 🌟

Note: Make sure you save these dates and get ready to dive deep into the electrifying world of chip design! 🗓💡

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Organiser and Partners

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VLSI Society

Registration for Ethical RISC-V IoT Workshop

Welcome to Ethical RISC-V IoT Workshop

The “Ethical RISC-V IoT Workshop” at IIIT Bangalore, organized in collaboration with VSD, is a structured, educational competition aimed at exploring real-world challenges in IoT and embedded systems. Participants progress through three stages: building an application, injecting and managing faults, and enhancing application security. The event spans from May 9 to June 15, 2024, culminating in a showcase of top innovations and an award ceremony. This hands-on hackathon emphasizes learning, testing, and securing applications in a collaborative and competitive environment.

Rules :
  1. Only for Indian Student whose college is registered under VTU
  2. Only team of 2 members can Register
  3. Use only VSDSquadron Mini resources for product development
Awards :
  1. Prize money for final 10 Team
  2. 3 Winner team’s Product will be evaluated for Incubation
  3. 7 consolation prizes
  4. Completion Certificate to final round qualifier
  5. Chance to build a Proud Secured RISC-V Platform for India

Date for Registration : 9th May - 22nd May, 2024
Hackathon Inauguration : 23rd May 2024

VSDSquadron (Educational Board)

VSDSquadron, a cutting-edge development board based on the RISC-V architecture that is fully open-source. This board presents an exceptional opportunity for individuals to learn about RISC-V and VLSI chip design utilizing only open-source tools, starting from the RTL and extending all the way to the GDSII. The possibilities for learning and advancement with this technology are limitless.

Furthermore, the RISC-V chips on these boards should be open for VLSI chip design learning, allowing you to explore PNR, standard cells, and layout design. And guess what? vsdsquadron is the perfect solution for all your needs! With its comprehensive documentation and scalable labs, thousands of students can learn and grow together.

VSD HDP (Hardware Design Program) Duration-10 Week

With VSD Hardware Design Program (VSD-HDP),  you have the opportunity to push the boundaries of what exist in open source and establish the new benchmark for tomorrow.

It will leverage your degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering to work with

  • Programmable logic
  • Analog/ digital IP
  • RISC-V
  • Architecture & microprocessors
  • ASICs and SoCs on high-density digital or RF circuit cards
  • Gain hands-on knowledge during design validation and system integration.

Sounds exciting to just get started with expert mentors, doesn’t it? But we are looking for the next generation of learners, inventors, rebels, risk takers, and pioneers.

“Spend your summer working in the future !!”

Outcomes of VSD Online Research IP Design Internship Program

  1. Job opportunities in Semiconductor Industry
  2. Research work can be submitted to VLSI International journals
  3. Participate in Semiconductor International Conference with Internship Research Work
  4. Paper Publications in IEEE Conference and SIG groups
  5. Tape out opportunity and IP Royalty
  6. Interact with world class Semiconductor designer and researchers
  7. Academic professions where more research projects are encouraged.
  8. All the above research and publication work will help colleges and institutes to improve accreditation levels.

Know More Information

VSD – Intelligent Assessment Technology (VSD-IAT)

VSD – Intelligent Assessment Technology (VSD-IAT) is expertly built training platform and is suited for designer requirements. Semiconductor companies understand the value of training automation and Engineer performance enhancement, and do not need to be convinced of the impact of a virtual platform for learning. VSD trainings are quick, relevant, and easy to access from any device at any time zone.

VSD Intern Webinars

VSD Interns made it happen !!

VSD is working towards creating innovative talent pool who are ready to develop design and products for the new tech world. VSD believes in “Learning by doing principle” , and always prepare the student to apply the knowledge learned in the workshops, webinars and courses. We always push our students to work on new designs, test it and work continuously till it becomes the best performing design. Any student who enrolls to VSD community starts working with small design and grows with us and develops a tapeout level design with complete honesty and dedication towards the Work !!

Check out VSD Interns Achievement!

VSDOpen Online Conference

Welcome to the World’s only online conference in Semiconductor Industry VSDOpen Conference. With enormous support and global presence of audience from different segments of industrial lobby and academia made a highly successful event. Evolution is change in the genetic makeup of a population over time, online conference is one kind evaluation everyone adapt soon. 

  • VSDOpen 2022 is an online conference to share open-source research with the community and promote  hardware design mostly done by the student community.
  • VSDOpen 2022 is based on the theme “How to lower the cost to learn, build, and tapeout chips ?”  , which will provide a platform to community to build stronger designs and strengthen the future of Chip design.
  • VSDOpen is envisioned to create a community based revolution in semiconductor hardware technology.
  • The open source attitude is required to bring out the talent and innovation from the community who are in remote part of world and have least access to the technologies.  And now Google support will help to bring the vision to execution by VSD team. 

VSD Online Course by Kunal Ghosh

VSD offers online course in complete spectrum of vlsi backend flow from RTL design, synthesis and Verification, SoC planning and design, Sign-off analysis, IP Design, CAD/EDA automation and basic UNIX/IT, Introduction to latest technology – RISC-V, Machine intelligence in EDA/CAD, VLSI Interview FAQ’s.

Current Reach – As of 2021, VSD and its partners have released 41 online VLSI courses and was successfully able to teach  ~35900 Unique students around 151 countries in 47 different languages, through its unique info-graphical and technology mediated learning methods.

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